~ I started playing Magic: The Gathering in 2001, in 3rd grade. My brother was in 5th going to 6th and we saw some 7th Edition booster packs and starter decks near the checkout at Wal-Mart. I don’t know what compelled us to pick them out, a random grocery store gift from mom {pls+ty}, beyond the art.
~ a poem about experience.
Gaze upon me
And what do we see?
A lank, a jester, a stranger
Walking questions
Building & burning a mortal coil
Yet, worlds are built into this frame.
These soles have crossed between dimensions
These hands have cut down demons & dragons
These eyes have seen things you cannot imagine
My spirit is unbreakable
Even whenI die
My body will plant seeds. ~
~ an essay on the music of Porcupine Tree, a prog rock band.
Steven Wilson considers his career a “noble failure.” No, for real — you can hear him say it here. The frontman of the freshly reunited prog rock giant Porcupine Tree speaks in this interview about the reality that he set out to be Prince, known to all, and instead just became Steven Wilson, {one of the best musicians to ever do it}.
Read more: https://thresholds-of-transformation.blog/2022/11/20/on-porcupine-tree/
~ a short story (fiction / parody / satire / *all in Minecraft*)
Elon stepped out of Twitter headquarters to the sight of losers and sounds of yelping nonsense. A horde of reporters awaiting him. Media parasites…
Read more here: https://thresholds-of-transformation.blog/2022/11/17/the-haunting-of-elon-musk/
~ essaying on a trio of “prestige” TV shows I recently watched concurrently, at long last: The Sopranos (1999), Mad Men (2007), and Better Call Saul (2015). Each from a distinct passage within this era now understood as “The Golden Age of Television.”
We have just lived through a Golden Age of scripted television.
Continue reading: https://thresholds-of-transformation.blog/2022/11/15/prestige-tv-tripulacion/
~ I have an artistic way of looking at the world.
Recently, I’ve been thinking about art, and the fact that there are so many … good pieces of it. I would go as far as to say we are living in a Golden Age of art. And I don’t…
